Todd's Tips for System Adminstrators
Just saw on Ben’s blog that Virtual PC 2007 is now available for download. I have been using it since it went Beta in October. I find it works fine and ran Windows Vista pretty good too. Of the new features, PXE boot is now supported which is nice to play with to learn WDS and the hardware support for virtualization is nice too.
Download: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/winfamily/virtualpc/default.mspx
Rick has posted some great information from Pierre Roman about the daylight savings change happening in 2007. For those who don’t know, Pierre is a Technical Account Manager with Microsoft. I had the pleasure of working with Pierre back in my days when I worked for the City of Kingston and he was a consultant with Quanara.
This is the best plain language document I have seen on the subject yet. It covers most of the main Microsoft applications.
The article is located here. Ou si vous préférez, voici l’article en français.
I was wondering about SQL Server and found this article on the subject.
Looks like I am good to go now.
The National Security Agency in the United States has posted their 60 Minute Network Security Guide.
This is good start for system hardening.
Other guides from them are located here.